“No. Not until I talked with Senator Barclay and learned about Garland.”
“You suspect, then, that the girl was heard confiding in the priest.”
“Exactly.”
“And that she was abducted after leaving the rectory, and the priest afterward killed.”
“Precisely.”
“And that Garland was afterward lured to that locality, and this torn letter dropped in the opposite lots in order to so incriminate him, apparently, that he would be helplessly in the power of these rascals.”
“That is my theory, Chick, and I’ll bank on its being very close to the truth,” Nick nodded.
“Gee! my money goes with yours, chief,” said Patsy. “I wish I could place a real bet on it, instead of only a mental wager.”
“I think you would win,” Nick said a bit dryly.
Chick straightened up in his chair.